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Date:      Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:02:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Eldredge <neldredge@math.ucsd.edu>
To:        vasanth raonaik <vasanth.raonaik@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Debugging init process.
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0903101900160.3173@zeno.ucsd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <d9f479c10903100953w4c600775oc06b997b67c472d6@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <d9f479c10903100953w4c600775oc06b997b67c472d6@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, vasanth raonaik wrote:

> Hello Team,
>
> I need to debug init process. I am not able to attach init to gdb and it
> throws

As others mentioned, this is explicitly disabled.  You could re-enable it 
by hacking the kernel, but it could cause other unexpected problems.

Alternatively, there's always "printf debugging".

What is wrong with init, that you need to debug it?  It's a fairly simple 
program that's been around for a long time and should be pretty stable.

-- 

Nate Eldredge
neldredge@math.ucsd.edu



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